Sanctifying everyday life is perhaps the greatest art. Every now and then albums come out that set this art to music, that manage to charge the washing up, the sitting around, the birdsong, or even better, to reveal its substance. Recital Records releases such albums with great regularity. Albums on which the everyday seems so urgent and significant that the message of the fragility of the whole is conveyed along with it: in this light, with these people in the background, you won’t be doing the dishes forever. Moments of great abundance, captured in the fading. The Portuguese João »Shella« Pereira, who mixes piano miniatures on his »TV Songs« with everyday sounds, and frequently with the TV on in the background, also succeeds in this. Slow pieces, thoughtful playing, always something scratching and talking in the background. The room is full and is being emptied, by the day and by the people. This is actually very simple music, but sincere sentimentality oozes from every keystroke. With these seven minimalist compositions, Shella succeeds in making feelings of comfort and existential loneliness palpable at the same time.
TV Songs
